Welcome to CEOI 2015!

We have a pleasure to invite teams of all
CEOI countries to participate at the 22nd Central European
Olympiad in Informatics that will be hosted by the Czech Republic, Brno, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
June 29 – July 4, 2015.
Hope you will enjoy your visit to Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic and the centre of Moravia.

Brief History of CEOI

It is a competition for secondary school students who are interested in informatics. The first CEOI was held in 1994, five years
after the first IOI. The first International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) for secondary school students, supported by UNESCO, was
organised in 1989. Thirteen countries took part in the first competition, held in Pravetz (near to Sofia), Bulgaria. A year later
already 25 countries sent their teams, composed of four students and two team leaders, to Minsk, Belorussian Republic, Soviet Union.
In the subsequent years the number of participating countries rose to almost 50. Inspired by the fast-growing popularity of the IOI,
the Romanian team proposed in 1993 to organise a similar event for the Central European countries (as a matter of fact, they have
been organising the Olympiad in Informatics of the Balkan countries since many years). Shortly thereafter, Romania officially invited
the teams of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia to participate in the first Central-European
Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI). Five of these eight countries Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania sent their
teams to Cluj in May 1994 where, upon special invitation, four more teams from Moldavia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey took also
part in the contest. CEOI'94 was hosted by the "Tiberiu Popovic" secondary school in informatics, Cluj; the organising committees were
headed by Ms Clara Ionescu and Dr Horia Georgescu.